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When speaking of people and their beliefs I wear my belief on my sleeve; I believe that people believe what they believe they believe. When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it, no, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, "Nothing doing!", and refuse to inspect it.
Likewise when they embrace a truth or an untruth it is not for either its truth or its mendacity, but simply because they have believed it all along and therefore regard the embrace as a tribute to their own fair-mindedness and sagacity.
There are enlightened days in which you can get hot water and cold water out of the same spigot, and everybody has something about which they are proud to be broad-minded but they also have other things about which you would be wasting your breath if you tried to convince them that they were a bigot, and I have no desire to get ugly, but I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me, but I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any other speaker far more convincing when I agree with him than when I disagree.

[Nash Ogden]